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And yet, Mr Palmisano's idea also depends on the fact that the terrain remains decidedly bumpy.

Mr Gerstner and Sam Palmisano, who succeeded him in 2002, also took less visible measures to avert another brush with oblivion.

Hoping to get IBM's share price up, Mr Palmisano has promised double-digit growth in earnings per share over the long term.

He's known as an affable manager, with a less intense personality than Rometty or Palmisano.

Mr. Palmisano: If you're going to be a global entity, you don't want to be viewed as a foreign multinational.

As Mr Palmisano readily concedes, this will be the work of at least a generation.

Palmisano issued with a full page of a shirt to wear white photographs, and last seen wearing a shirt Guoshina sharp contrast.

Palmisano took over sales when he was named president in 2000 and succeeded Louis Gerstner two years later.

According to Sam Palmisano, the CEO of IBM, hierarchical, command-and-control approaches simply do not work anymore.

Mr Palmisano turned IBM into a money-making machine.

Who ends up succeeding Palmisano may well depend on what the board decides are the top priorities going forward.

Palmisano, himself, will volunteer in the Baltimore public school system, where he confessed his personal academic performance was mediocre.

Palmisano is happy about the way he has repositioned the company -- even if the stock market hasn't always shared his enthusiasm.

IBM's chief procurement officer may be in China, but no one who reports directly to Mr Palmisano is based outside America. Yet.

The third model, argues Mr Palmisano, the IBM he is now building, is the "globally integrated enterprise" .

Palmisano understood that it's all about capital.

In Palmisano's tenure, IBM has bought more than 30% of its shares.

When Mr Palmisano became IBM's boss in 2002, the firm seemed to have a perfectly good strategy.

Giuseppe Palmisano of the University of Southern Denmark, however, thinks he knows the answer.

Finally, Palmisano pointed to implementation in "natural systems, such as agriculture and waterways. "

That's a big reason IBM's (IBM) stock is 82% higher than it was when Palmisano took over in 2002 -- higher even than its bubble-market peak.

But Dr Palmisano thinks he has identified the ones specific to wine.

Though, if rumours are to be believed, a record-breaking bid from private equity may yet rescue Mr Palmisano's reputation.

Its head of procurement, for example, is based in Shenzhen, China, half a world away from Mr Palmisano's headquarters in Armonk, New York.

For what we do, why shouldn't we be acknowledged for the work, '' said Palmisano.

Mr Palmisano's legacy, says Ms Rometty, is that "he taught IBM to remember how to constantly reinvent itself" .

Sales reached almost $100 billion in 2010 and profits, which have quadrupled during CEO Sam Palmisano's nine-year reign, hit a record.